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Schools PortalRepository• Some figures• Principles and
practices• Challenges• Future plans
José Moura Carvalho, DGIDC, Portugal | jose.moura.carvalho@dgidc.min-edu.ptEdReNe, 4th Strategic Seminar, Barcelona, 24-26 March 2010
The Schools Portal - Portugal
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Schools Resources News “e-little
schools”
The Schools Portal - Portugal
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The Schools Portal - Portugal
Resources
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• Repository launched in June 2009• 9,000 registered teachers;• 1,500 resources in all; 900 validated ones;• 1,500,000 scanned pages of magazines and newspapers
from 1910 to today;• 33,000 unique visitors a month;• Most visited resources: Science, Maths, History, Primary
education;• Most voted resources: History, English, Geography,
Primary education .
Some figures
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• Adoption of international standards and specifications:• LRE metadata application profile v4;• OAI-PMH;• SQI;• Translation of LRE Thesaurus into PT;• Promotion of Creative Commons licenses;
• No packaged content (SCORM, Common Cartridge).
Principles and practices
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• Content and metadata are validated:• Scientific mistakes, gender problems, language
appropriate to learning level, etc.;• Metadata is checked for inaccuracies;• Team of ± 30 teachers, trained in the evaluation of
DLRs;• Checklist includes content and metadata.
Principles and practices
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• Open access to teacher-created content;
• Access to registered teachers only for other content (a section containing about 1,500,000 articles from newspapers and magazines from 1910 to today);
• Search in the LRE portal is now possible.
Principles and practices
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• Disseminate information on the Schools Portal;
• Get teachers to contribute content more widely;
• Build user communities around subject areas and transcurricular areas;
• Prepare information and promote the use of Creative Commons licenses.
Some challenges
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• Sections on:• educational blogs maintained by teachers;• open source software and Web 2.0 tools;
• “Dedicated sections” (mobile technologies, use of GIS, etc.);
• Materials and initiatives on Creative Commons licenses;• More collaborative tools (subject areas, forums, etc.);• Incentives to teachers to create DLRs;• Protocols with media companies.
Future plans
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